06/19/2017 - From asylum-seeking to city-making: asylum seekers and refugees in European cities

On 5 February, La Fabrique de la Cité went to Hamburg to meet Anselm Sprandel, Director of the Central Refugee Coordination Unit (ZKF) and Jan Pörksen, Secretary of State of the Ministry of Labor, Social and Family Affairs and Integration of Hamburg. Today, La Fabrique de la Cité publishes the account of its visit to this city for which resilience necessarily implies collective intelligence.

01/31/2017 - What are the expectations of Millennials for tommorow city?

Millennials: the omnipresent term alternately arouses doubt, irony, and weariness. This remarkable Millennial, to whom the media so often attribute profoundly distinctive characteristics, is above all a mystery, more an object of fantasy than scientific deduction.

11/23/2016 - Feeding and Fueling the City

Cities must take ownership of urban logistics. But how? What are the existing interactions between our changing ways of living, consuming and producing, and the way these goods and inputs are supplied, stored and dispatched within the city?
How is this impacting the nature, the design, the usage or the sizing of urban infrastructures and spaces – whether public or private? How can we better structure and optimize the flows of goods and inputs, as well as the flows of people in a constrained space such as the city?

Overviews

09/26/2016 - La Fabrique de la Cité

New urban trends

How can city people serve the people’s city ? What innovations can cities implement in order to improve quality of life for their inhabitants? How can cities promote urban resilience in the face of long-term economic, social, and climate risks ?

09/26/2016 - La Fabrique de la Cité

New urban trends

How can city people serve the people’s city ? What innovations can cities implement in order to improve quality of life for their inhabitants? How can cities promote urban resilience in the face of long-term economic, social, and climate risks ?

10/08/2015 - La Fabrique de la Cité

Understanding behavioural changes to keep transforming cities

Which are the emerging behavioural changes in mobility, housing, working life, consumption patterns and the management of public spaces? How these new trends are transforming cities? These are but a few of the questions which La Fabrique de la Cit. decided to put into debate during its international seminar.
More than 100 participants came to Berlin from July 1st to 3rd 2015 to address the broad topic of new ways of living in cities.

11/19/2014 - La Fabrique de la Cité

What tools can we use to optimise the city?

While the challenges faced by cities become increasingly complex to resolve, they also have fewer and fewer resources with which
to do so. This apparent paradox can however become an additional source of motivation and innovation. Optimising the use of local natural
resources (water, energy and space), making optimum use of existing infrastructures (buildings, roads and networks) and extracting maximum value from constantly diminishing financial resources: these are the big challenges now faced by our cities.

09/18/2013 - La Fabrique de la Cité

How to create value for cities?

How can they continue to create value and achieve growth? Which levers for urban transformation will work despite these constraints? All of these questions and more were addressed at the seminar hosted by La Fabrique de la Cité in Stockholm from 3 to 5 July 2013; an event that gave urban stakeholders the opportunity learn from experiments that have generated value in the city, for the city.

09/15/2012 - La Fabrique de la Cité

Building the shared city: how to engage citizens

How can collective intelligence be used to design projects on a collaborative basis? How can citizens be involved at every stage of a project? What can be done to make sure that their contributions are incorporated effectively? Should consensus be sought at any price? How can dialogue be structured to resolve conflicts and obstacles as effectively as possible?

01/25/2012 - La Fabrique de la Cité

Looking for Legacy: for a sustainable impact of major sports infrastructure

Major sports infrastructures are a great asset when it comes to the remodelling of a city. They are a unique opportunity to launch large urban renewal projects, and they also answer the need for social cohesion.

09/26/2011 - La Fabrique de la Cité

What is the place for public spaces in the city of the future?

Public spaces reveal a city’s history, its collective memory. They are also an expression of its complexity. Public spaces are an intrinsic part of
the urban landscape, structuring the city. The overview of La Fabrique de la cité seminar presents the participants’ various concerns and presents the principal challenges point by point.

06/28/2010 - La Fabrique de la Cité

The city is alive

Cities are living, dynamic places, made vibrant by shared and disputed urban qualities. How are the multi-faceted challenges and issues encountered by elected offcials, scientists and urban planners to be tackled and resolved? The overview of the City Factory seminar presents the participants’ various concerns and presents the principal challenges point by point.

04/10/2009 - La Fabrique de la Cité

Sustainable cities - from vision to action

Today, half the world's population live in cities, which generate more than two-thirds of the planet's CO2 emissions. This growing urbanisation plays a crucial role in climate change. It also raises economic, ethical, environmental and social issues that bring into question the accepted urban forms of earlier decades. After reflecting on the sustainable city, our task now is to build it.

07/03/2008 - La Fabrique de la Cité

Mobility in the city: let's change!

Whenever urban development is mentioned, transport necessarily springs to mind. All policy makers, at local or national level, are confronted with
the problem of road congestion and the need to reduce negative impacts on the urban environment. There is, therefore, a pressing need to Examine, rethink and optimise travel modes.

Studies

06/19/2017 - La Fabrique de la Cité

From asylum-seeking to city-making: asylum seekers and refugees in European cities

On 5 February, La Fabrique de la Cité went to Hamburg to meet Anselm Sprandel, Director of the Central Refugee Coordination Unit (ZKF) and Jan Pörksen, Secretary of State of the Ministry of Labor, Social and Family Affairs and Integration of Hamburg. Today, La Fabrique de la Cité publishes the account of its visit to this city for which resilience necessarily implies collective intelligence.

01/31/2017 - La Fabrique de la Cité

What are the expectations of Millennials for tommorow city?

Millennials: the omnipresent term alternately arouses doubt, irony, and weariness. This remarkable Millennial, to whom the media so often attribute profoundly distinctive characteristics, is above all a mystery, more an object of fantasy than scientific deduction.

11/23/2016 - La Fabrique de la Cité

Feeding and Fueling the City

Cities must take ownership of urban logistics. But how? What are the existing interactions between our changing ways of living, consuming and producing, and the way these goods and inputs are supplied, stored and dispatched within the city?
How is this impacting the nature, the design, the usage or the sizing of urban infrastructures and spaces – whether public or private? How can we better structure and optimize the flows of goods and inputs, as well as the flows of people in a constrained space such as the city?

03/23/2015 - La Fabrique de la Cité

The exponential growth of data presents cities with an opportunity to address the challenges they face, not the least of which doing better with less. Many cities have now embarked upon an open data approach, which constitutes an important step towards democratic transparency and reflects their openness to usage-based innovation.

10/17/2013 - Anne POWER

How to create value for cities?

How do we create value in cities? How do we create value for cities? These were the questions at the core of La Fabrique de la Cité's Stockholm seminar from July 3 to 5, 2013. Professor Anne Power, who leads the Housing and Communities Department at the London School of Economics (LSE), was there to decipher the strategies deployed by 7 European cities to (re)create value.

09/23/2012 - Michel LADET

Building the shared city: how to engage citizens

La Fabrique de la Cité (The City Factory) mandated Sociovision to conduct a quantitative study on citizen motivations and initiatives with respect to urban development in seven countries: Brazil, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States, and France.

04/16/2009 - Yamina SAHEB

Sustainable cities - from vision to action

Vesterbro in Copenhagen, Bed-Zed in London or Vauban in Fribourg: sustainable- or ecodistrict are in vogue. On April 01-03 2009 in Copenhagen, the sixty guests of La Fabrique de la Cité's "Sustainable cities: from vision to action" seminar were able to learn about the first results of Yamina Saheb's critical analysis of sustainable disctrics.

Notes

06/16/2016 - La Fabrique de la Cité

New urban trends

Boston is home to some of the most prestigious universities among the US, MIT and Harvard, is recognized as one of largest innovation cluster in the world. Pioneer in the field of digital uses in urbanism, the city is now trying to answer with the same creativity to its resilience issues. Strongly impacted by the sea level rise and designated as the most segregated city in the United States, Boston has to reinvent itself in order to maintain its dynamism. The city is an ideal environment for the international seminar of La Fabrique de la Cité in 2016 which focused on new urban trends

12/17/2015 - Jacob WEST

How can we make cities incubators for health?

As part of its ongoing research programme on healthy cities, La Fabrique de la Cité asked Jacob West, strategic advisor to the Harvard Global Health Institute and former director of the London Health Commission, to share his thoughts on how cities can promote better health for all.

07/01/2015 - Dominique BUREAU

Understanding behavioural changes to keep transforming cities

As part of its 2015 international seminar in Berlin on city transformation through behavioural changes, La Fabrique de la Cité asked Dominique Bureau, General delegate of the Economic council for sustainable development and its Scientific committee member, to share his thoughts about La Fabrique de la Cité’s contribution to the economic analysis of cities.

09/16/2014 - La Fabrique de la Cité

What economic activities and siting strategies for cities?

Today more than ever, economic dynamism and growth resides and derives from cities. In a world where more than 60% of the global GDP comes from the activity of only 600 cities around the globe - some of which not even megalopoles inhabited by millions - comes the inevitable question: how can we create city value?

07/10/2014 - Dominique BUREAU

What tools can we use to optimise the city?

As part of its 2014 international seminar in Lisbon, La Fabrique de la Cité asked Dominique Bureau, General delegate of the Economic council for sustainable development and its Scientific committee member, to share his thoughts as an economist on the subject of urban optimization.

06/10/2014 - La Fabrique de la Cité

Urban data impact on daily mobility

La Fabrique de la Cité wanted to explore these Urban Data issues by assigning a study mission to Sciences-Po with a special focus on the subject of mobility. This memorandum throws much light on public and private Urban Data stakeholders and the prospects offered by the opening up, crossing, and sharing of mobility data.

06/05/2014 - La Fabrique de la Cité

What tools can we use to optimise the city?

How can cities optimise their investments and the way they operate against the current backdrop of economic, social and environmental challenges? How can they make the most of what they already have and develop urban spaces while optimising ever scarcer resources? These are the questions that La Fabrique de la Cité wanted to place at the centre of its 2014 international seminar in Lisbon.

09/18/2013 - La Fabrique de la Cité

How to create value for cities?

La Fabrique de la Cité invited Anne Power, Professor at the London School of Economics, to present her recent work on "Phoenix Cities" (in reference to her recent book “Phoenix Cities”, published by Policy Press in March 2010). This picturesque expression refers to cities that enjoyed
strong industrial development before falling into a period of abrupt decline from the 1970s onwards.

10/15/2012 - La Fabrique de la Cité

Building the shared city: how to engage citizens

La Fabrique de la Cité has entrusted to graduate students in the Master in Regional and Urban Strategies (Stratégies Territoriales et Urbaines) at Sciences Po ( the Political Sciences Institute of Paris) the task of examining the levers that favour buy-in for major urban projects.

01/13/2014 - La Fabrique de la Cité

Understanding behavioural changes to keep transforming cities

Berliners play an important role in the development of the city and its governance: they shape the city in their own image and promote original uses of its facilities in terms of work, mobility and housing; city-dwellers are encouraged to do so by a favourable cultural environment, local authority initiatives and input from a number of enlightened investors. For all these reasons, the German capital was the perfect host city for La Fabrique de la Cité's 2015 seminar on "Understanding behavioural changes to keep transforming cities".

04/03/2012 - La Fabrique de la Cité

What is that drives public action on urban mobility issues?

“Is life in the city considered an ideal for students?” Future technicians and decision makers—students in architecture, urban planning and transportation engineering—talked about their design of the ideal city and the forms of mobility that they dreamed up. They were given free rein to express their utopias using images, video and text.